Many complain here about the helix maintainers pace and PR rejection rate. I embrace it. It’s opinionated software developed in the open and you can fork any time.
I prefer this model of strict high quality governance and a “no” as default to keep their vision clear.
Who doesn't like high quality! But in reality many high quality contributions are rejected, so all you're left with is "opinionated" where the opinion doesn't match yours
Of course you can't, that's a common open source fantasy, in reality you wouldn't have enough lifetimes to improve quality and maintain changes in every app you use, that's why defaults/config flexibility/rejection of good ideas/core vs extensions etc. are important and discussed and can't be papered over with a "but fork"